Nuance Unveils New Personal Assistants and Keyboards for Wearable
Devices at CES 2014

LAS VEGAS & BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced that it
continues to innovate intelligent systems for wearable devices with
Dragon Mobile Assistant and Nuance’s Swype keyboard for smartwatches.
Nuance will be demonstrating how device makers can bring Nuance’s
leading personal assistant features and innovative predictive input
keyboard capabilities to a broad array of emerging consumer electronics.

“Wearable technology marks an important evolution in the way people
interact with devices,” said Michael Thompson, executive vice president
and general manager, Nuance Mobile. “Leveraging our powerful Nuance
Cloud Services, we are creating intelligent systems optimized for
devices with smaller screens where buttons and menus are not practical,
or perhaps even not possible. Wearables were made for voice, natural
language understanding, and Swype.”

Working with Omate, Nuance is unveiling the vision for Dragon Mobile
Assistant for wearable devices, which will be displayed on Omate’s
TrueSmart Android smartwatch at CES 2014. Dragon Mobile Assistant brings
an intelligent and customizable personal assistant to the smartwatch
experience. People can simply speak to their watch to make calls, send
emails or text messages, set reminders, manage their calendar, search
the Web, and update social media. And, with a quick flick from the watch
face, users can immediately access game scores from their favorite
sports team, quotes for their most important stocks, restaurant
recommendations, and the local weather.

“Dragon Mobile Assistant demonstrated on the Omate TrueSmart showcases
how intelligent assistants are creating a new generation of wearable
devices. The ability to simply speak to the device on your wrist to send
emails, text messages, set reminders, and search the web is an
incredibly compelling and rich experience that we at Omate are thrilled
to work on with Nuance,” Laurent Le Pen, CEO, Omate.

Nuance will also be demonstrating new Dragon Mobile Assistant features
that facilitate music discovery and home automation as part of the
wearable device experience. Through the utilization of music recognition
technology from Gracenote, Nuance is making it easier than ever to
identify songs playing, discover hot new artists and connect to music
services. Hear a song playing you like, just say “Hello Dragon, what
song is this?” and using Gracenote technology and metadata, Dragon
Mobile Assistant will identify the artist, album and track. From there,
wearable device users can launch playlists from popular Cloud-music
services.

Additionally, Nuance will demonstrate how Dragon Mobile Assistant
integrates connected lighting pioneer Philips’ API for the new Philips
Hue lighting system to command and control lighting just by speaking to
your smartwatch. For instance, you can say, “Switch the lights to
reading mode,” or “Change the lights to something energizing,” to ensure
your lighting environment always suits your mood.

Nuance will also be showcasing its Swype keyboard designed specifically
for smaller screen devices, like the smartwatch. Swype’s predictive
input lets people use their finger to glide from one letter to the next
to quickly and easily input text. Nuance’s Swype prototype for wearables
also supports handwriting input for wearable devices along with the
ability to choose from a variety of mini-keyboard layouts in both US
English and Korean.

Nuance’s portfolio of voice, touch and natural language understanding
innovations are defining a new generation of personal assistant
technologies for consumers globally and for the world’s leading
manufacturers and carriers. To learn more, visit www.nuance.com
or join the conversation at www.facebook.com/nuancemobilelife
or @NuanceMobile
on Twitter.

About Nuance Communications, Inc.

Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) is a leading provider of
voice and language solutions for businesses and consumers around the
world. Its technologies, applications and services make the user
experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with
devices and systems. Every day, millions of users and thousands of
businesses experience Nuance’s proven applications. For more
information, please visit: www.nuance.com.

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